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If the above are the ingredients you are using when you prepare your meals, your diet is almost certainly not a low carbohy-drate high fat, but a low carbohydrate high protein diet. Please mind the difference and don't brag in the comments about how great you feel on your "keto diet"! If you are an avid follower of the SuppVersity News  on Facebook ( revisit the post ), you will remember Louise M. Burke's late 2016 paper which showed that a low carbohydrate, high fat diet impairs exercise economy and negates the performance benefit from intensified training in elite race walkers" (Burke 2016). Accordingly, Jørn Wulff Helge from the  Center of Healthy Aging  in Copenhagen, Denmark, wrote in his recent perspective article in  The Journal of Physiology  that "in elite athletes training and performing at intensities similar to elite sports competition, keto-adaptation is not the optimal dietary choice" (Helge 2017). You know,  high-protein ...

Not basing both the ketogenic and regular very low calorie diet on whole foods, only was only one of at least 3 problems with the study at hand that can thus not be considered the ultimate litmus test to compare VLCD with en vogue VLCKD diets. Ketogenic diets are characterized by constantly low insulin levels. That's not exactly what has been considered muscle protective in the old age of bodybuilding, where insulin's protein-anabolic and anti-catabolic effects were still hailed as a benefit you wouldn't want to miss (Fulks. 1975; Woolfson. 1979), but according to a recent study from Rome, a ketogenic diet may be the go-to diet for everyone trying to shed as much as weight as possible in as little time as possible by cutting your total daily energy intake down to a hilarious <700 kcal/day (Metta. 2016). Now, cutting calories back that much may sound (and be) idiotic for someone who has been lean all his / her life and is just trying to make his abs more visible. Fo...

I don't know what exactly was in the ketogenic rodent chow that was used in the study at hand, but I doubt it were transfat laden sausages ;-) Welcome to the fourth issue of the SuppVersity  ISSN '15 Research Review ... as you will notice I am trying to make the introductions shorter and shorter with each installment of this series. So, let's not waste time and dig right into the latest research on ketogenic diets. Yes, you heard me right. There is  new research on ketogenic diets that does not focus on weight loss, the obese and/or cancer. Rather than that, the studies discussed in this installment of the ISSN '15 Research Review deal with the effects of ketogenic diets on the skeletal muscle anabolic response to resistance exercise, as well as its effects on weight gain in an ad-libitum diet scenario. Read more about ISSN and other studies at the SuppVersity Vitargo, Red Bull, Creatine & More | ISSN'15 #1 Pump Supps & Synephrine & X | IS...

Truly ketogenic diets have recently lost much of the attention they received at the beginning of the 21st century. And today, many people refer to every low carb diet as "keto" or being "ketogenic". Research from scientists from Germany, however, have now found that ... the absence of dietary carbohydrates per se does not induce ketosis . LC-HFDs [low carb high fat diets] must be high in fat, but also low in protein contents to be clearly ketogenic . Independent of the macronutrient composition, LC-HFD-induced weight loss is not due to increased EE and LA. So probably few of those hardcore keto-dieters out there will eventually end up in "true" ketosis. A positive thing, if you asked me, because although I am a low carb guy, I am not a no carb guy ;-)

Some good news for all fat, yet healthy students of the SuppVersity. Scientists at the University of Oxford cooperated with some colleagues from the University of Ottawa Heart Institute ( Hodson. 12 July 2010 ) and found that The contribution of fatty acids from splanchnic sources was higher (P<0.05) in the abdominally-obese group. Ketogenesis occurred to a significantly greater extent in abdominally-obese compared to lean males largely due to lessened down-regulation of postprandial ketogenesis (P<0.001). Not only does this tell us, that our bodies try to protect themselves from fat-deposition in the liver and other organs. It might also shed additional light onto the effectiveness of low-carb diets in obese individuals.